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Crazy Eights

Crazy Eights

2 - 5 players
20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

Public domain card game which plays with a regular deck of cards. The idea is to get rid of all your cards FIRST. Everyone gets some number of starting cards (like 5), and must play a matching card (colour/suit/value), or pick up 1 from the 'stock' pile, and either play THAT or pass. There are many variants, according to Hoyle. Some have 8s as the wild card (any colour/value), while other use Jacks - hence the alternate names. All seem to have at least one 'pick up #' card, and one 'skip a turn' card. Variants also include pick-up 2s, which could accumulate if more 2s were played consecutively (pick up 4, 6, or 8), and Jacks as the skip-a-turn. In other variants played with 4s as skip-a-turns, Aces as pick up 1s and Queen of Spades as pick up 5. Crazy Eights is the game upon which the commercial UNO is based.

Crazy Eights

Which Crazy Eights video should I watch?

Crazy Eights has 2 videos from 2 creators: 2 how-to-play guides. They date from 2021 to January 2024.

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Crazy Eights - How to playHow to play3:28

Crazy Eights - How to play

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About Crazy Eights

From BoardGameGeek:

Public domain card game which plays with a regular deck of cards. The idea is to get rid of all your cards FIRST. Everyone gets some number of starting cards (like 5), and must play a matching card (colour/suit/value), or pick up 1 from the 'stock' pile, and either play THAT or pass. There are many variants, according to Hoyle. Some have 8s as the wild card (any colour/value), while other use Jacks - hence the alternate names. All seem to have at least one 'pick up #' card, and one 'skip a turn' card. Variants also include pick-up 2s, which could accumulate if more 2s were played consecutively (pick up 4, 6, or 8), and Jacks as the skip-a-turn. In other variants played with 4s as skip-a-turns, Aces as pick up 1s and Queen of Spades as pick up 5. Crazy Eights is the game upon which the commercial UNO is based.

Artists

Saxton Freymann, Lüders & Baran, Chris Raschka, Walter Steinbeck

Categories

Card GameChildren's GameMath & Numbers

Mechanics

Hand ManagementPattern Recognition
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